Car-body.



PATENTED JULY 23, 1907.

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UNITED sTATEs PATENT oirrueE ETHAN I. DODDS,

ILLINOIS.

CAR-BODY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Serial No. 346,440.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ETHAN I. DoDDs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Pullman, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Car-Bodies, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to cars in general but more especially to ore cars such as are used at mines, and the salient object is to provide a car which, with a given underframe or one of fixed dimensions, will carry a maximum load between the trucks and will discharge or dump the same without leaving any appreciable amount adhering to the inner faces of the car body walls as lading of almoist character has a tendency to do.v

My improved car body in plan is in the form of a cross whereby a portion of the load is carried outside of the underframe proper and outside of the tracks or rails and wheels. To facilitate the dumping a portion. of the walls of the body are made outwardly and downwardly flaring so that the weight of the load itself tends to separate the ore or other material from the walls hence accomplishing a complete discharge of the lading.

On the accompanying drawings which form a part of this specification I have illustrated a desirable enibodiment of my invention, and on the different views of this drawing like reference characters refer to the same parts throughout.

Figure 1 is a planview of a car having one of my improved cross-shaped load-conveying bodies; Fig. 2 is a partial side elevation and partial central longitudinal section of the car shown in Figi; Fig. 3 is a vertical cross-section on line 3-3 of Fig. l as viewed in the direction indicated by the arrows; and Fig. 4 is a vertical cross-section near the center of the car on line 4 4 of Fig. 1.

The car underframe includes comparatively heavy channel side sills 10-10 disposed with their flanges projected outwardly so that their inner faces present flat vertical surfaces against which certain portions of the car body are riveted. Body bolsters 11-11 and end sills 12-12also form parts of the car underframe. Extended across the car at its center below the side sills and riveted to their lower flanges is an I-beam 13 the ends of which project beyond the side sills, this I-beam extending across the full width of the car, as will be apparent from an inspection of Fig. 4. Above the side sills and above the I-beam 13 is another similar I-beam 14 which rests upon the top fianges of the side sills and is riveted thereto. Parallel with these I-beams are the two channel beams 15 which rest upon and are riveted to the side sills as is the beam 14, these channels being of the same length as beam OF PULLMAN,IILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO TI-IE PULLMAN COMPANY, lOF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF Patented July es, 1907.

Serial No. 215.492. Divided and this application filed December 5, 1906.

14, that is extending from side wall to side wall of the car as is explained below.

Beneath the side sills and below the channels 15 are similar channel beams 1G fastened, as will be readily understood, to the bottom flanges of the side sills. In orde channels 15 between the side sills associated with each being rivet r to strengthen the an angle iron 17 is ed to its web and full lines and partly in dotted line The car body in plan view is in as is clearly shown in Fig. 1, and I walls or plates of the' s in Fig. 3.

the shape of a cross have made the end arms of the cross downwardly and outwardly inclined, these walls being indicated by the reference characters' 18, 19, 20 and 21.

The longitudinal upwardly tapered plates 22 are riveted at 23 to the inner faces of the side sills, while the t which are also tapered, are riveted the protruding ends of channels 15 and 16.

readily understood that the end w 20 and 21 are secured by means of ransverse plates 24, to the outer faces of 1t will be alls or plates 18, 19, corner angles to the plates 22 and 24 in the usual manner.

In order to aid in the support of inclined plates 20 and 21 across the outer face of each is extended an angle bar 25 which rests upon the side sills and is riveted to their top marginal flanges.

The underframe is also supplied with comparatively small channel center sills 26 which extend inwardly from the end sills 12 to the adjacent end walls 20 or 2l, being suitably attached at their inner ends by means of rivets to these walls, short angle bars 27 being provided to rivet to if desired. In order to brace these end Walls and to aid in their support I provide at each end of the car a pair of beams or struts 28 riveted at their lower ends to the center sills and at their upper ends to angle end stakes 29. Around the top edge of the car body a coping vided, and around the bottom edge marginal angle bar 31 is used. Across angle iron 30 is proof the body a similar the top of the body and centrally disposed there is provided an I- beam 32 and on either side thereof angle plates 34. As will are channels 33 fasmeans of rivets and channel bars 33 are fastened to the transverse plates 24.

The bottom of the car body is provided with a plurality of doors 36, 37, 38 and 39 which form the complete fioor or bottom of the car when in closed position. The end doors 3G and 37 are hinged at the ends of the body at 40 and are each provided near I-beam or bar 41, the opening and being controlled at their lower ends and at their upp their free ends with an closing of the doors by chains 42 attached to the I-beams er ends fastened to a shaft 43 extended lengthwise the car body on top of the same and rotatably mounted in of doors 38 and 39 are hinged longit bearings 44. The pair udinally of the body at the outer edges ofthe same at 45 and when in closed l portion their inner edges nearly touch, as shown in Fig. 4. Each of these doors also has an Lbar 46 near its unhinged edge7 the bars being fastened to chains 47 secured at their upper ends to the shaft 43 as are the chains 42. At one end shaft 43 is equipped with an operating handle 48 and with a pawl and ratchet mechanism 49, the former serving to control the opening and closing of the doors while the latter maintains them in closed position. When the doors are up or in load-retaining position they form a substantially flat or Iiush v bottom, as is shown in Fig. 4.

Although I have described only the extreme end and side walls of the body as being inclined it is obvious that the other walls may be sloped either inwardly or outwardly to direct the lading in any direction desired or to facilitate the dropping away of the moist lading from the wall when the doors 4are opened. To those skilled in the art it will be apparent that numerous other changes may be made in the car shown and described especially in the manner of supporting the body or of operating the doors without departing from the heart of my invention or sacrificing any of its advantages.

This application is a division of my former application Serial Number 215,492, Steel car construction, July 6, 1904.

I claim: A

1. A car body in the form of a cross, the arms'of which are extended longitudinally and transversely vof the car underframe, substantially as described.

2. In a railway dumping car, the combination of a car body in the form of a cross, the arms of which are extended` longitudinally and transversely of the car underframe, and one or more doors to open and close the bottom of said car body, substantially as described.

3. A car body in the form of a cross, one or more Walls at theend or ends of the arms of the cross being downwardly and outwardly inclined, substantially as described.

4. ln a railway dumping car, the combination of a car 40 body in the form of a cross, the Walls at the ends of the arms fot' the cross being downwardly and outwardly divcr-gent, and one or more doors to close the bottom of said car body, substantially as described.

5. A car body in the form of a cross the arms of which are extended longitudinally and transversely of the car underframe, the latter arms projecting beyond the 'car wheels, substantially as described.

ETHAN I. DODDS.

Witnesses WALTER M. FULLER, FREDERICK C. GOODWIN. 

